A Thoughtful Restoration Returns an Italian Villa Outside Turin to Form

“Our objective was to restore the property to its original splendor,” Susie Ropolo says of a run-down country estate in Moncalieri, Italy, that she and her husband, Gianni, revived. “We wanted it to look like it had never been touched.”

On the front lawn sits a 15th- or 16th-century well, right, that still works. The villa is approximately 400 years old.